George Eliot quote about women from Middlemarch - Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know
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Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Middlemarch
Topic women politics economy
Date 1872
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm

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“He was accustomed to do so, and she had often thought that she could urge him to many good actions when he was her brother-in-law.
Mr. Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was speaking, and seemed to observe her newly.
«Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know,» said Mr. Brooke, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon. «I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, now. But some say, history moves in circles; and that may be very well argued; I have argued it myself.” source

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